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 Sysklogd-&sysklogd-version; Sysklogd <para>The Sysklogd package contains programs for logging system messages, such as those given by the kernel when unusual things happen.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>&sysklogd-ch6-sbu;</seg> <seg>&sysklogd-ch6-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Sysklogd First, fix a problem that causes a segmentation fault under some conditions in klogd: sed -i '/Error loading kernel symbols/{n;n;d}' ksym_mod.c Compile the package: make This package does not come with a test suite. Install the package: make BINDIR=/sbin install Configuring Sysklogd Sysklogd configuring /etc/syslog.conf Create a new /etc/syslog.conf file by running the following: cat > /etc/syslog.conf << "EOF" # Begin /etc/syslog.conf auth,authpriv.* -/var/log/auth.log *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/sys.log daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log kern.* -/var/log/kern.log mail.* -/var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log *.emerg * # End /etc/syslog.conf EOF Contents of Sysklogd Installed programs klogd and syslogd Short Descriptions klogd A system daemon for intercepting and logging kernel messages klogd syslogd Logs the messages that system programs offer for logging. Every logged message contains at least a date stamp and a hostname, and normally the program's name too, but that depends on how trusting the logging daemon is told to be syslogd